Another reader warns of a possible stalker. She said he's a 40-55 year-old Caucasian male, 6'-6'3", thin with thinning, light brown hair and balding at the top. He has thin, metal, Harry Potter-shaped glasses, light colored eyes (semi
close together), large pointy noise and tends to swivel head often. He wears casual slacks, layered professional
jackets, and solid black gym shoes.

The reader claims to have had five encounters with the man, four of them on the Orange Line. The encounters all involve what they called intense, menacing staring. The woman said it was so bad that she felt "threatened and extremely uncomfortable."

In one encounter:

He literally followed me off the same car of a Metro train despite him
being in mid-squat about to sit down when he realized I was
getting off. Immediately, after I exited the train, I boarded
the train across the platform. The doors shut, and I spotted the man
looking confusedly around on the platform, standing in the same place,
when he made eye contact with me through the train doors and stared at
me until my train departed.

And in another encounter:

At Metro Center on the Orange line to New Carrollton platform, I was alone
waiting on the train. The train approached, and I boarded, sat
down, looked up and suddenly the man was there when I had not noticed
him on the platform. Yet he boarded behind me. He would
not stop staring at me even after I stared back at him to communicate
that I was feeling threatened by him. He kept staring and was looking at
my things, so I did not want to pull out any personal items or give him
any hints of who I was. I felt so threatened, I exited the train at
Smithsonian station. He continued to stare at me through the
window, sitting in the seat I was just in, until the train departed.

The reader said she'dcalled Metro Transit Police about the man, but they "recommend taking a picture of him and reporting him. The police cannot
currently act upon this report because no physical harassment has been
committed."

I am not one to keep riding the Metro to wait until that does happen. Please contact police if you see this man. Note
that no verbal communication has been made so there is no voice
description for this man.

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